Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1887-10-14
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that, should she desire it, her services will
be required in Emmons County next year.
Extra copies of the RECORD containing
Merchant DeGratf' 8 engraving have been
in demand this week. Our bachelors
want them to paper their rooms.
A~1andlord BottomleY will have fifteen.
bushel- -an-hour feed-mill running before
long He will put up building for it,
and will grind for the public.
Mr.. Cordner, the enterprising farmer
and agricultural implement dealer of the
Sterling country, has been visiting the
Williamsport country this week, buying
potatoes.
Born--Tuesday, Oct. 4, 1887. to Mr..
and Mrs. VIM. V. Wade, son. The sher-
ifs little deputy was born at Winona,
where Mrs: Wade was visiting her sister,
Mrs. John McCrory.
T. At Uxbridge, OAK, Miss Cassie Walks,
while assisting her father in stacking,
was struck in the face by bundle of
grain, a straw entering her left eye,
destroying tho sight
"Papa" Wade, one of the owners Of
That Blessed Baby" was in town
yesterday: The sheriff speaks to- his
friends all the same as of yore, and don't
seem bit stuck up.
MIR. and Mrs. Patterson and Little Miss
Genie, of Winona, came up Monday to
attend the Crystal wedding. After call
ing on number of friends In the Will
Transport neighborhood, they departed for
home Tuesday afternoon.
On a recent Sunday evening, while
young Uxbridge Oak couple were out
walking, they were attacked by an ami
NAL which the gentleman quickly dis
patched. A daylight investigation re-
vealed the fact that neighbours pet cat
had been killed.
Probably there have been three boys to
one girl born in Emmons County during
the past Year. This is all right, perhaps
but the spirit moves us to ask what they'll
all do for sweethearts in 1926 years
from now? The next session of the legis
lature should tackle this matter.
Tribune A worthy citizen of Emmons
County became exuberantly hilarious
yesterday, and his friends did him the
kindness to place him in his wagon and
start him for his home. With the fatality
attendant upon Emmons County "deco
rators," there is reason for alarm.
y Mr.. and Mrs. Lindsay and family left
for Bismarck Wednesday. Mr.. Lindsay
will leave at once for the vicinity of Bill
ings, Mont, where he will be employed
by Fortune & Shelton on railroad work.
They have sent out the grading machine
that was used by them on the A., B. & N.
w., and Mr.. L. will have charge of it.
Everybody living On the Missouri
Slope knows DR.. Dunn, the old.t1mer.
In purchasing drugs the public has to de-
pend largely on the dealers statements
as to quality and prices. Nobody ever
had reason to complain of his dealings
with the firm of Dunn & Co. Therefore,
when in Bismarck, be sure to call on them.
In the states a large proportion of
deaths are of children under five years
old. But in Dakota it appears that infant
mortality is no greater than that of adults.
There have been, since the county was
organized, four years ago, at least one
hundred children born in Emmons,
and we have heard of but two or three
deaths among them.
One of North Dakota's sportsmcn was
driving borrowed mule team over the
prairie in the vicinity Of Grand Forks,
the other day, when flock of chickens
flew up from the roadside. He fired at
the whole flock, and succeeded only in
bringing down one of his mules The
mule was hit only on the cheek, however,
and soon recovered.-[Ex.
The Shakespeare Club will meet at the
Dougherty Building, in Wlliamsport, to.
morrow evening. At the last meeting
only q part Of Julius Cesar was read,
and therefore the noble julie was not mur-
dcrcd. But he was only respited for a
week, and Saturday eve he will surely
die. Hamlet will soon be taken up,
with the Judge as Desdemona.
Tribune: The citizens of Emmons
County now threaten to take the law in
their own hands. A number of them
have been heard to remark that the next
murder case furnished by that county
will not be tried IN Bismarck, but that an
expeditions and elevating trial will be
given within the borders of the fair do.
main of Emmons.-[ Bismarck Tribune.
The time draws nigh when the citizens
of Emmons County will begin hauling
their wheat to Bismarck. Every one will
then want to lay in a supply of groceries,
and all will desire to deal with firm til at
they feel assured keeps only fresh and
pure goods in stock, and that is satisfied
with reasonable margin of profit. George
Jennings bears this reputation, and if you
deal with him you will make no mistake.
r While violent death in any form is
something to be contemplated with hor.
ror, yet it Is much better that o. A.
Green, who wanted to die, took his own
life, instead of that of some man who
wished to live. Had he taken the latter
course, he would have had to lie in iai
for some months then he would have
been indicted and tried his friends woulc
have had to pay $500 to bring Bill Erwin